Solomon Islands' Fund
p. 47 · Read in the full issue
Now £570
THE Red Cross branch in the British Solomon Islands, up to mid-May, had collected just over £570 in Aus tralian currency of which £460 has been sent to the Lord Mayor’s Fund, London.
Most of this money has come from sub scriptions and the natives of the Solo mons have contributed £l7O of it. This is a remarkable performance for a com munity comprising only 500 Europeans and 200 Chinese.
Mr. Frank P. Beddows, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Beddows, of Taveuni, Fiji, ar rived in New Zealand recently to join the N.Z. forces for overseas. Two of his brothers, who enlisted with the Fiji Contingent in the Great War, were killed in France.